The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pride in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously) to Sergeant Joseph C. Carson (ASN: 2806618), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with Company D, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, near Les Huit, Chemins, France, 26 September 1918. Sergeant Carson, with two other men, volunteered to rush an enemy machine gun which had concentrated its fire on an opening in some barbed-wire entanglement through which his company was endeavoring to advance. He had successfully silenced its fire when he was killed by the fire of other enemy machine guns.